absurdity

[L. absurditas: cf. F. absurdite.]

1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. «The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number.» Locke.

2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.

His travels were full of absurdities.

Definition: ridiculous situation or behavior
Antonyms: logic, reason, reasonableness, sense

n

Definition: ridiculousness
Antonyms: reasonableness, sense

n.

A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Quotes:

"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." - Agnes Repplier

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be." - Archibald Macleish

"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only." - Thomas Hobbes

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